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📖 3rd Grade · ELARF.3.3bUnit 5: Word study: prefixes, suffixes & roots

Suffixes

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🎯 Objective: Students decode words with Latin suffixes (-able, -ment, -ness).

Lesson outline

  1. Suffix chart: -able, -ment, -ness, -ful.
  2. Build: enjoyable, payment, kindness.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: three suffix words.

Lesson 2 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.3.3b

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes
  • Use affixes and roots to determine meaning

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Prefixes & suffixes📚 All 3rd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Word study: prefixes, suffixes & roots”

  1. Prefixes
  2. Suffixes
  3. Root words
  4. Irregular spellings
  5. Spelling patterns

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